Added a link to the Rotor Community Site. Haven’t had a chance for much spelunking, but it looks cool. Currently offers the SSCLI and an HPC project up there for participation.

Harry Pierson writes:

I see Luke has resurfaced after going dark for 24 hours straight. I wonder if he was handling feature requests?

I apologize in advance to anybody who expects me to work 24×7 churning out new features and bugfixes for SharpReader because it’s just not going to happen. I actually have a full-time job, a wife, two kids, and there’s an unconfirmed rumour that I sometimes spend part of what little spare time I have left away from the computer.

While I definately plan to address bug-reports and feature-requests for SharpReader, you’ll have to be patient. It took me a while to get SharpReader to a state in which I felt confident enough to release it (I started on it last year as a pet-project to teach myself C#), and it will take a while for new features to be addressed.

Sorry…

[Luke Hutteman’s Weblog]

No, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to suggest that you should work on SharpReader 24×7. I meant that it would take at least 24 hours to sift thru the email, blog entries, bug reports and feature requests that SharpDevelop generated. Everyone I read seems to have an entry about it – I would imagine that’s pretty overwhelming.

I’m wrote that I was willing to pay for SharpReader, but I still wouldn’t want you or anyone to sacrifice family, job, sanity, etc. I only have one kid, but he’s only 7 weeks old. And my full-time job takes me away from home for days at a time. Not that I have it better or worse than you – just that I’ve just taken a crash course in choosing between coding and real life so I think I know how you feel.

Awesome work on the 0.9 release. I eagerly await the next version, but I can be patient.

I’ve been using SharpReader all day – like everyone else. I love it, but I do have a couple of feature requests. I love the folder view – click on “subscribed feeds” and it shows every entry in every blog you’re subscribed to. However, since not everyone uses the same format for dates, the “sort by date” feature doesn’t always bring the unread entries to the top. Can we get a “only show unread” filter? And I’d like a simple method to skip to the next unread entry (Syndirella uses the space bar for this).

I see Luke has resurfaced after going dark for 24 hours straight. I wonder if he was handling feature requests?

Harvester is fun. RssBandit is better. SharpReader Owns.
[Chris Hollander: Objective]

Everyone seems to agree with Chris. Me too. Wow, the threaded view is awesome. And it has filtering too, but not quite what I was looking for. Like Brad, I’d throw money at SharpReader. Looks like I’ll need to add support for the image RSS tag, since SharpReader will show it.

I posted yesterday about wanting a filtered version of aggregate RSS feeds. I take it back! I want my RSS news aggregator client to be filter enabled, not the service providing the aggregate feed. What was I thinking? Since I’ve signed up as a member of RSS Bandit (and just got accepted as a member of Harvester) I’ll look into adding the feature myself. Also, Sam Ruby pointed out Luke Hutteman’s SharpReader which looks like it allows you to view a post in context with other posts like a threaded conversation. Cool, I’ll have to check that out.

On an RSS related note, thanks Dare and Don for pointing out SgmlReader to me. I just built a simple utility to download my weblog DB into an XML file, including converting the HTML -> XHTML (though I still need to do some namespace conversion work). As such, I don’t see the need for my HtmlReader. However, I will be keeping the code around and will even be updating it soon with a bug fix from Chad Osgood.